Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-23
EASTERN NEWS
A Wealthy Gentleman SWiniled BY
the Gold Brick Trick.
PHILADELPHIA wsol MERCHANTS DO NOT
WANT sEeTIex FsuR SUSPENDED.
4 Terrific cyelo-s IN Missouri Killed
Fifteen Persons.
TIE CITY o. MONTREAL AGAIN SUI
yEalNG FROM NuEDATioN.
A Severe Storm Between Og-
den and Cheyenne.
ESPECIAL TO II s~EsrrsEL-1
Tho Gold Brick Trick Played.

NEW lOhh, apIL S%.hA O'O6
paper prints the following: What bids
fair to develop into a big gold brick
swindle, came to light to-day at the
United States Assay Office. Yester-
day a well-known and wealthy gentle
man of this city deposited four large
bars supposed to be gold with the as
saver. to be refined, and made into
standard gold bars. The gentleman
said the bars were from California, and
were estimated to be worth about
SIC. 900 each, or 100000 for the four,
and that the assay which he had made
before showed the bars to be about "
per cent fine. The bars were received
and receipted for in the usual form,
and the gentleman departed in full
confidence that he had $40,0 900 in gold
in the hands of Uncle Sam. The sus-
picions of Graham. the receiver of the
deposit, were excited by the light
weight of the bars, their specific
gravity being only about SO, whereas
| the specific gravity Of gold is about
1913. Samples were taken from the
four bars and assayed, when it was
found that the bars were of copper,
| with a wash of gold on the outside.
In short, the four bars turned out to
| be worth about 81, instead of 10000.
| Up to noon to-day the gentleman had
not called to ascertain the result of the
| assay. Evidently afraud has been per-
petrated on him. and that he is num-
| bered among the victims of the gold
| brick trick.
what Wool Merchants Say.
WASHINGTON, April %. - Justice,
Bateman & Co., wool commission
merchants of Philadelphia, in a letter
to the Commission express the hope
that Section 4 will not be suspended
as regards trans-continental lines. The
protests against the long and short
haul, they say, come from parties who
have heretofore enjoyed the greatest
benefits from cut rates, and who have
had an unfair advantage. For in
stance, they continued, last year the
merchants of San Francisco had a rate
of so cents per 100 pounds On wool,
while the dealers and growers, To-
Gated several hundred miles further
east, had to pay 50 to 81 80 per 100
pounds if that wool was shipped
direct to the east. There is wool, they
say, now in Philadelphia, grown in
Montana, which the railroads forced
to be sent thence via San Francisco,
making a haul of 1900 miles, while if
shipped direct it would have travelled
only 1900 miles. The object of the
discrimination was to give the San
Francisco merchants an opportunity
to exact a toll before it reached its
natural destination.
a Big Storm Between Ogden and
Chey enne.
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, April PA
severe snowstorm, accompanied by a
high wind and cold weather, ragged
along the line of the Union Pacific
railway between Ogden and Cheyenne
all Of yesterday and last night. The
| storm was especially severe on the
steep grade west of Laramie, and dur
ing the night freight trains between
Laramie and Cheyenne had to be side
tracked. The passenger trains are on
time. The snow has now ceased, but
the weather is still threatening.
The Old Bulls Read Market Burned
New YORK, April 22.-The district
bounded by Twenty-third and Twenty
fourth streets, and Third and Lexing-
ton Avenues, the site of the old Bulls
Head Market, and a place Of so-called
shelter to a thousand horses, was at
an early hour this morning the scene
Of a coniagration, which the firemen
fought for three hours. Nearly all the
animals were removed, though a num-
Der were burned. The loss is about
$4,000.
Lieut.. Daunenhower's Remains.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-The re-
mains of Lieutenant Dannenhower
were brought to this city this after
noon from Annapolis. They were ac-
companied by two brothers and two
brothers-in-law Of the deceased, and a
naval escort Of six Lieutenants, who
acted as pail bearers at Annapolis.
The body was taken to an undertaking.
CStduilbIkICub dIlQ cIuDdiulcu. lI6 1
funeral will take place Sunday after
noon.
Montreal Flooded.
MONTREAL, April 22.-This city is
again suffering from inundation. An
ice gorge above Victoria bridge has
caused the flooding of st. Charles, st.
Paul. and all the other low lying To-
Nuns Island is under water,
and the nuns had a morrow escape in
their night clothes. At Lang the ice
crushed into the houses and demol-
ished a number of them. There is
great distress in the poor quarters of
The city.
Has lee Ideatined.
GLOBE, Arizona, April 22.-The
nan arrested here as VIM. Springer,
he Cotton wife murderer, has been
Identified as the right person. II